Word: disdain
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Whenever they viewed his disdain for the dative...
...Their demands for separate religious services are firmly denied by most prison authorities, on the ground that they are not a religious sect (the 100,000 authentic Moslems in the U.S. heatedly disavow Elijah and his followers). They must shave their goatees. When pork appears on prison menus, Muslims disdain it.* Mess-hall fighting has been touched off when they have attempted to impose their dietary laws on other prisoners. Elijah's bizarre version of the Koran is barred in all prisons...
Although his disdain for professional politicians is boundless (he remarked recently to friends: "What after Algeria? Oh, after! We will be back to po-li-tics"), De Gaulle is not insensitive to those pressures that affect politicians in every age and every country. There has been a steady slide of the major French parties toward opposition, chiefly because of increasing discontent with De Gaulle's domestic austerity. Only the hope that he can solve the Algerian dilemma has protected him. In Algeria itself, he has been influenced by the growing evidence that the Moslems once thought riveted to France...
...suspicion, contempt, almost hatred of the home government." The "main responsibility" for this state of affairs, he charged, must rest on Macleod, "a man of most unusual intellectual brilliance" but also one who "has been too clever by half." Macleod's trouble, Salisbury suggested with lordly disdain, might lie in his fondness for bridge, a pastime at which he earned his living for two years as a bridge expert on the London Sunday Times. He understood, said the marquess - rather like a man searching for a kind word to say about cannibalism - that "it's not considered immoral...
...every bit as game, but it doesn't cope quite so successfully. Jo Van Fleet (the prostitute and, as it turns out, the boys' mother) got an Oscar, but probably for sheer stamina; at least no one else in the film is required to say (with pride and disdain): "I run the toughest house on the coast, and I've got the finest clientele...